The Zonal State Archives in Lida held a single information day dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp
On January 27, 2025, the Zonal State Archives in Lida held a single information day dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The director of the archive, S.G.Svirko, noted in her report that the history of mankind holds many sad dates and events. Fascist concentration camps are one of the most terrible pages in the history of mankind. 80 years have passed since the liberation of prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. If there is a symbol of horror in the world, it is the Auschwitz death camp. It truly became the concentration of all conceivable crimes of Nazism, and even unimaginable ones. This was the largest and longest-lasting of the Nazi camps. It consisted of three camps: Auschwitz I; Auschwitz II – Birkenau, or Brzezinka, and Auschwitz III – Monowitz. The Auschwitz I concentration camp was established in Poland in accordance with Heinrich Himmler’s order on the organization of death camps in occupied countries on April 27, 1940. According to Nuremberg Tribunal documents, 2.8 million people were killed in the camp between 1941 and 1945, 90% of whom were Jews. Trainloads of prisoners arrived at the continuously operating «death factory». Fifteen to twenty thousand daily. Before sending the prisoners to the gas chamber, they were subjected to inhuman experiments.
On January 27, 1945, the «hell on earth» for the prisoners of Auschwitz ended. The prisoners of Auschwitz were liberated by a Soviet soldier. The actions to liberate the death camp were carried out as part of the Vistula-Oder operation. According to archival documents, it was liberated by fighters of 39 nationalities: Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Armenians, Ossetians, Georgians and many others.
Let us preserve and pass on to future generations the memory of the tragedy that took the lives of millions of people who went through the hell of Nazi concentration camps, in order to prevent such things in the future!
In the photo: Archive employees during a single information day.
